Wing Chun Footwork – It’s Not Chinese Dancing!

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So, whats the new dance step youre doing, Yoshi?

Yeah, I hear that all the time. Even from people who should know better. You probably do as well, particularly if you do footwork for Wing Chun. Wing Chun, or Chinese Dancing is a soft style with a strong philosophical bent to it. The name originally came from the ideograms for Ever Spring, and its appropriate. I was getting tired of walking with bruises and pulled muscles, and needed to switch to a softer style while I was recovering. I like Kung Fu styles, so learning Wing Chun was like falling off a log. Only without as much falling, or as many punches to the sternum. Though the joint locks did remind me I was doing a real martial art. (One piece of advice anyone who says Hey, let me show you a joint lock! is a sadist. Just say no. Really.) In some ways, Wing Chun is like the early forms exercises you do for Kung Fu, only carried to their logical extreme, rather than used as the fundamentals of a hard style.

What drew me to Wing Chung, aside from the sprained wrist on my primary punching hand, was the fluid footwork that its practitioners had. Well, OK. It was the fluid footwork that I saw in Jet...

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